Multiple Control Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

of its inadequate payments. In the end, the Democrats' health care reform will require drastic rationing of health care for the sick to control its costs. The government-controlled UK health care system... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

Project, and Lawyers for Civil Rights. Grant decisions are made by representatives from the NCF’s core leadership group, who draw on a variety of firsthand experiences with systemic racism. In late June, the NCF plans to announce its... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

commercial scale. Verdant, for example, is currently raising funds to develop turbines twice as large for deployment off the coast of Wales, where Smith anticipates generating megawatts of electricity by 2025. And he has his eyes on an even larger prize: Once the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

important role to play, supporting businesses and business leaders during this transition. When you’ve been trained to do one thing—to maximize profit—we cannot assume that it’s going to be easy to change the system and pursue View Details

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

turn indicate to what degree operating managers can control customer satisfaction. Essentially, we're looking at the entire operating system and drilling down to determine which factors are most important... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve... View Details

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

need-based solar energy systems tailored to the unique requirements of rural communities. These systems are co-created with stakeholders, including local NGOs and end- users, ensuring effectiveness and... View Details

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

platform was unique. I was continuously engaged with the course's material and learned a lot from my peers. Kaushal Khodifad Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate... View Details

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

sectors (e.g., the retail industry in Chile, or the startup sector in Israel) or particular policies (inflation targeting in Brazil), and others span multiple countries (Chinese investments in Africa, or climate change). The course itself... View Details

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

03 Jun 2020
News

Keeping a Community Connected

do things better on the other side. In our sector, particularly on the early childcare side, the crisis is showing how essential those programs are—not only for child development, but also for families to be able to work. I can envision reinventing childcare and having... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

opportunities. Kyriarchy A complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression. // coined by theologian Elisabeth... View Details

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US health care... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

to crucial functional systems is not just a one-time task, but an ongoing process. This approach fosters a culture of continuous improvement and preparedness, ensuring that the company is always ready to respond to potential disruptions.... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Malaysia: People First?

By: Diego A. Comin and John Abraham

On March 30, 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak presented his new economic model (NEM) for Malaysia. With the goal of raising per capita income to over $15,000 by 2020 from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; Emerging Markets; Transformation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Malaysia

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29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

Utku Ünver explain in a paper, factors such as contracts, control of stadiums, and corporate sponsorship effectively tied the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) into a system of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

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